3 May
2010
3 May
'10
8:21 p.m.
The Lynx may not have had any popular big name games, but it did have quite a lot of
excellent games in its library. To this day it's my favorite handheld system.
On May 3, 2010, at 10:05 PM, Jim Leonard wrote:
On 5/3/2010 4:54 PM, Andrew Burton wrote:
The thing that put people off was (excluding the popularity of the SNES and
Megadrive/Genesis) that it was an unknown product with no big name game -
Right, I had already mentioned the lack of a recognizable license. Even PS1 had Crash
Bandicoot; Saturn had Virtual Fighter; Turbo Grafix had Bonk; etc. Lynx and Jaguar had...
nothing.
Not to mention that damn controller, who needs 30
odd buttons on a
controller! Todays controllers have about 8 buttons, plus a d-pad and 2
analogue sticks.
Jag controller had a d-pad, three action buttons, and 12 "numeric" buttons for
a total of 16 core elements. PS3 controller has two sticks, a dpad, four buttons action
buttons, four shoulder buttons, a "click" rocker on each stick, and
tilt/orientation sensing for a total of 15 core elements -- seems like the PS3 controller
caught up to the jag controller...
Did you get the CD unit for it? I believe it sat
in the cartridge slot of
the Jaguar, so you could play CD-based games.
I didn't. I was so depressed by the entire affair that I sold everything Jag-related
I had 4 years ago for $40 total at a local computer game expo.
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